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The Stomach 



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THE 



STOMACH: 



ITS FUNCTION AND HYGIENE 










NEW YORK: 

THE HEALTH-LIFT COMPANY 

No. 178 Broadway 

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by The Health-Lift 
Company, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



;IS HART AXO COMPANY, 13 SXD i% COLLEGE PLACS, KS*-TOSK. 






CONTENTS 

Page 

Introductory 9 

Prevention of disease the paramount object — Care 
of the Stomach to this end — The Mosaic physi- 
ology — Healthy blood ; perfect circulation. 
The Stomach 11 

A single organ — Other vital organs, double — Slight 
causes affecting "the conscience of the body" — 
Voltaire's apothegm — What to eat — How to eat — 
When, and how much — Quantity for brain-work- 
ers — Gastric juice in digestion — Answer to a Phy- 
sician — Coats of the Stomach — The birth of the 
blood — Office of the muscular system indigestion 
and circulation. 
Causes of Indigestion or Dyspepsia 19 

Insufficient saliva — Bloodless Stomach — Fermenta- 
tion and decomposition — Effect of mental action 
or emotion — Muscular condition — Morbid conges- 
tion — Effect of, on brain and nerves — Increased 
action, the result of increased blood supply — 
Vigorous muscles equalize the circulation — Char- 
acter of muscular structure as a whole, dependent 
upon the character of its parts — Relaxed abdomi- 
nal muscles — Causes of dyspepsia, bilious trouble, 
constipation, haemorrhoids, etc. — Their cure by 
restoring tone and vigor to voluntary muscles. 



Cumulative Exercise 2 

Its claims — Its effect on abdominal muscles — The 
diaphragm — Unsupported organs — The lungs, 
heart, Stomach, liver, spleen, intestines, etc. — 
Cumulative Exercise uses muscles of trunk — Relief 
of diseased action by restoring organs to natural 
position — Theories and facts. 

Illustrative Cases 28 

I. —Sick Headache from Indigestion. II. — Distress- 
ing Flatulence. III. — Weight at pit of Stomach 
IV — Dyspepsia and Haemorrhoids. V. — Obesity 
and Asthmatic Breathing. VI. — "The worst 
form of Dyspepsia, Weakness, Irritability, Ner- 
vousness, Headache, Loss of Appetite," etc. 
VII.— Habitual Vomiting after Meals. VIII.— 
Flatulent Dyspepsia, Haemorrhoids and Headache. 
IX. — "Ailments enough to stock a Hospital." 
X. — "Old Age and Dyspepsia both Cured." 
XI. — Heart Disease from Indigestion. 

Six Letters from a Dyspeptic . „ • , • 36 



" T HAVE always advocated the opinion that 

X " the most important part of the science of 
" medicine is to prevent disease ; and that to suc- 
" ceed in doing so is to induce the public to learn 
" how best to manage their Stomach." 

Dr. BEALE,* in these words, indicates the present 
sentiment of the medical profession : First, That 
its object is, most importantly, to prevent disease ; 
and, Second, That its success in that direction de- 
pends upon the intelligent cooperation of the public. 

What follows, concerning the Stomach and its 
Hygiene, is not intended to be exhaustive, nor, 
indeed, to do more than emphasize the central fact, 
older than any system of the healing art, but 
around which a new and exact science of medicine 
is crystallizing, namely : The Blood IS THE Life. 

That it is necessary so simple and obvious a 
proposition should be iterated with so much stress, 
urged as though it were a novel discovery, is only 
another illustration of the "fatal facility" with which 
the most vital and important elementary principles 

* Lionel John Beale, editor of The Stomach and its Ailments, by 
Sir James Eyre, M. D. 



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are overlooked or underestimated, because of their 
freedom and abundance, — as are sunshine, air and 
water, matters so common that we rarely pause to 
consider their vital necessity. 

This blood, the river of life, carrying in itself the 
material for the growth and repair of every part of 
the body, has its source and origin in the Stomach. 
If the stream be obstructed or defiled at its source, 
the value of the current, throughout its whole 
course, must be impaired, and disease and prema- 
ture death result. 

To feed and renew healthily the vital tide, and 
then to secure its equal, thorough, perfect circulation 
to, and through, every part of the body, are the 
most important steps toward healthy life. 



THE STOMACH 

MAN has but a single Stomach. 
Which may be a. blessing, from a dys- 
peptic point of view. 

(Imagine a ruminant dyspeptic, suffering the 
pangs of indigestion in four Stomachs at once.) 

With double sets of most other vital organs, that 
most vital viscus, — upon which depends the nutri- 
tion of every other, — in man, is a unit. 

Two brains, two lungs, two hearts (anatomically), 
two kidneys, two sides to the body generally, but 
only one of that organ whose importance the 
ancients recognized by making it the seat of the 
soul itself. 

Cut off an arm or a leg, — scoop out an ounce or 
two of the brain, — destroy the lungs until one, 
only, of the five lobes be left, — extirpate one of 
the two kidneys, — any, or possibly all, of these 
mutilations may be borne, and yet life and a toler- 
able degree of health be preserved. 

But an Alexis St. Martin, with a window in his 
epigastre, is so rare an instance of recovery from 
injury to the Stomach, that he is no less famous 
thus than for the opening he afforded physiologi- 



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cal Paul Prys to watch the wondrous alchemy by 
which beef and pudding are converted into human 
protoplasm. 

It is not necessary, though, to perforate one's 
midriff in order to destroy the integrity of the 
Stomach. 

An insufficient secretion of gastric juice, — a want 
of tone and vigor in the muscular coat, — a slight 
morbid congestion of its blood-vessels, — or a per- 
version of function of its nerves, and the resultant 
suffering may be of such a character as to rob life 
of all its charms. 

A wise and witty writer has doubted if the In- 
ferno, itself, affords torments equal to those of 
indigestion. Haller, the father of modern physiol- 
ogy, called the Stomach "the conscience of the 
body;" — and the remorse of a guilty Stomach, the 
result, it may be, of but one mis-step from the 
paths of dietetic virtue, what can assuage ? 

It is not proposed, in these pages, to enter into 
dry physiological details. But in order to empha- 
size whatever of advice is offered, and to suggest 
the reasons for such advice, a few of the more im- 
portant points connected with digestion will be 
briefly touched upon. 

Voltaire is credited with the caustic apothegm 
that " at forty, one is either a fool or a physician." 



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It is assumed that the reader, whether forty or not, 
knows enough of himself and his physical peculiari- 
ties to escape the first category ; that he knows 
what articles of food he can, or cannot, eat with 
impunity ; that he knows the uses and objects of 
his teeth ; that he has learned what quantity, and 
at what intervals, he can eat with best results. 

Knowing these things, he will be ready to admit, 
as to the first point, the literal truth of the homely 
adage : " What is one man's meat may be another 
man's poison " — and will not need be told, what is, 
in fact, the essence of dietetic wisdom : Eat what 
agrees with you. And this, regardless of what 
Combe, or Graham, or Bellows, or Dio Lewis, or 
any other of the self-appointed talkers about other 
people's Stomachs, has to say on the subject. 

Knowing the uses and objects of his teeth, the 
reader will not fail to use them properly — not only 
actively, in chewing, but passively, by furnishing 
them a proper mixed diet, the necessity for which 
is pointed out by their variety of form, as well as 
by the structure of the alimentary canal and the 
character of its various secretions. 

As to quantity and number of meals, he may or 
may not have learned that, — in this country, at 
least, and among brain-workers, — over-eating is a 
much rarer error than under-eating. " Always get 
up from the table bungry," may have been a neces- 



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sary hygienic injunction in Poor Richard's day. 
But it is a gross dietetic blunder now, and, proba- 
bly, always was. The material of which the brain 
and nerves are composed is contained in much 
smaller quantity in our ordinary food than that for 
any other portion of the body. And yet the average 
reader of these lines uses his brain and nervous 
system out of all proportion in excess of his mus- 
cular. One of the most eminent living physiologists 
has shown that three hours' use of the brain involves 
a direct waste of tissue equivalent to ten hours' 
muscular labor. # So that the occupant of study, 
pulpit, forum or bench, sanctum, counting-room or 
desk, absolutely needs more food and better, than 
the most laborious toiler at mere manual labor. All 
intellectual giants, — with exceptions so rare as to 
scarce prove the rule, — have been good feeders. 

KNOWING, then, what, and how to eat, when, and 
how much, what more is there to be said on the 
subject ? 

Given a judiciously selected meal of skillfully 
cooked food, thoroughly masticated, and one might 
be inclined to think he had done his share toward 
securing that good digestion which, The Master 
tells us, " waits on appetite." 

But the task is but begun. With the introduc- 
tion of food into the Stomach begins the secretion 

* Rev. Prof. Haughton, M. D., F. R. S., etc. 



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of the fluids necessary for its ultimate conversion 
into blood. The hint as to the " insufficient secre- 
tion of gastric juice,"* will hardly prepare one for 
the statement that from twenty-four to thirty 
pounds of this fluid is necessary to the proper di- 
gestion of the ordinary three meals a day. That 
is : A bulk of fluid equivalent to the entire volume 
of blood in the body, is secreted from that blood 
every twenty-four hours in the healthy individual. 
When the writer first made this statement in print, 
he received a note from a physician, calling his 
attention to what was supposed to be a mistake of 
" pounds " for ounces. To which the following re- 
ply was made : 

Answers to Correspondents. 

Gastric Juice. — No; there is not any mistake, "acci- 
dental," or otherwise, in our statement in this journal for 
Nov. i, that from twenty-four to thirty pounds, —not ounces, 
— of gastric juice is secreted every twenty-four hours by the 
healthy adult. 

After citing the experiments of Bidder and Schmidt, 
Lehman, Corvisart and others, Flint, in the latest and most 
authoritative work on physiology, sums up thus : "* * * 
It is evident that the entire quantity of gastric juice secreted 
during the digestion of a single meal is very large ; amount- 
ing, at a very moderate estimate, to from eight to ten pounds." 
(Physiology of Man, vol. II., p. 231.) He goes on to say 
that this enormous quantity of fluid, daily secreted by the 

* See ante p. 12. 



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mucous membrane of the Stomach, would excite surprise, 
were it not considered that after this fluid has performed its 
office in digestion, it is immediately reabsorbed, and but a 
small quantity of the secretion exists in the Stomach at any 
one time. 

We stated the fact as boldly as possible, in order to excite 
inquiry and attention. Very few of us realize anything of 
the wonderful processes going on in "the house we live in," 
especially in its kitchen, — the Stomach. 

The average amount of blood in the human body is twenty- 
eight to thirty pounds. From eight to ten pounds of gastric 
juice is necessary to digest each meal we eat. This gallon 
or so of liquid is taken from the blood. Now, isn't it clear 
that if the blood doesn't flow vigorously to the Stomach there 
won't be enough juice furnished to convert the food into nu- 
triment ? In other words, won't digestion be imperfect ? — 
Won't dyspepsia mark you for its own ? 

And can this blood flow vigorously if your muscles are so 
lax and feeble that you never realize what it is to have a mus- 
cular consciousness ? Don't you know your circulation is 
imperfect, when your extremities are habitually cold and 
your head habitually hot and flushed ? And, finally, don't 
you know that ten minutes a day spent in a systematic, ju- 
dicious Exercise will so tone up your five hundred-and-odd 
muscles that you will have a clearer brain, a firmer nerve, a 
sounder digestion and a more thorough circulation than all 
the drugs and bitters ever compounded can give you ? 

The Socratic style is scarce suited to didactic 
composition — but something may be pardoned the 
natural surprise that a medical man should have 
made such a blunder. 



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In addition to the enormous amount of fluids, 
necessary to prompt digestion, — of which the gas- 
tric is only one, — a healthy condition of the three 
coats of the Stomach is essential. If the mucous 
coat be diseased and so pours out a larger quantity 
of mucus than is normal, this mucus, by enveloping 
the food, will protect the latter from the solvent 
action of the gastric juice. If the muscular coat 
be out at elbows, so to speak, — is relaxed and 
feeble, — the necessary churning and grinding action 
of the Stomach will be wanting. Or, if the peri- 
toneal coat be congested or inflamed, or the nerves 
disordered, any of these, or of the foregoing, con- 
ditions will cause either imperfect, prolonged or 
painful digestion. 

As with the Stomach so with the small intestines. 
In these the bile from the liver, and the pancreatic 
juice from the pancreas or sweetbread, are mixed 
with the chyme from the Stomach, and the process 
of digestion still further carried on ; until the per- 
fected product, the chyle, is at last poured into the 
blood, to be sent by the heart ^ the lungs, there 
to receive the breath of life and become " flowing 
flesh "— the Life itself* 



* * * * The physicians of the nineteenth century are preparing 
to sit at the feet of Moses, and learn that the blood of an animal really 
constitutes its life.— Rev. Prof. HAUGHTON, M. D., F. R. S., etc. : On 
the Relation of Food to Work, and its Bearing on Medical Practice in 
Modem Times. 



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The integrity, then, of the Stomach and the due 
performance of its function, involve much more than 
a correct diet and vigorous mastication, — although 
these, too, are "of the essence of the contract." 

The office of the muscular system, in the merely 
mechanical work of grinding and churning ; and its 
agency in the circulation of the blood, by which 
the necessary juices are furnished for digestion,— 
by which the elaborated product is conveyed to the 
lungs for oxygenation, — and by which this oxyge- 
nated product, the living blood, is carried to every 
part of the organism for its growth and repair; 
and, finally, its action upon the brain and nerves, 
by which the whole wondrous organism is regulated 
and controlled, — this muscular system, comprising 
over one-half the entire bulk of the body, is, at 
least, of secondary importance to no other in the 
function of digestion. 

A brief consideration of some of the more com- 
mon ailments of the Stomach will illustrate this, 
and indicate the remedy through the agency of the 
muscular system. 



CAUSES OF INDIGESTION OR 
DYSPEPSIA 

THROUGH the medium of the Blood all 
the processes of Life take place."* 

At the very foundation of the process of diges- 
tion do we find this important truth. The saliva 
with which the food is mixed in the mouth, and a 
proper quantity of which is as necessary to perfect 
digestion as of any other fluid, is, like all other 
fluids, secreted from the blood. The presence of 
the food itself in the mouth, increases the flow of 
blood in the vessels of the glands which secrete the 
saliva ; and the muscular motion of chewing also 
calls additional blood there. 

If, from any cause, there be an insufficient sup- 
ply of blood sent thither, this first step in the proc- 
ess will be imperfect. Continuing the process a 
step further, the only partially salivated food enters 
the comparatively bloodless Stomach where, ex- 
posed to a temperature of about ioo°, instead of 
being met by an abundant secretion of gastric juice 
and vigorously attacked by the muscular churning 
and grinding, it lies, fermenting and decomposing, 
in the inert, juiceless organ. This fermentation and 

* Flint's Physiology of Man. 



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decomposition give rise to various acid products 
and gases, which cause pain, " heart-burn," " acidity 
of the Stomach," flatulence, etc. 

So the process might be followed step by step y 
each one adding to the disastrous effects, and all 
dependent, radically, on the same cause, viz., a 
failure in the due supply of that fluid through whose 
agency " all the processes of life take place." 

The influence of any violent emotion, either of 
fear, or anger, or the grief which " causeth the 
tongue to cleave to the jaws," will prevent the due 
supply of blood, by monopolizing it in the brain. 
So that, while deeply engrossed mentally, or vio- 
lently affected emotionally, food should be partaken 
of sparingly and only of the most easily digested 
character. 

Aside from the psychical causes, and more im- 
portant than these, — because generally of a more 
permanent character, — the condition of the muscu- 
lar system has more to do with Digestion than is 
generally recognized. In another place* we have 
endeavored to point out the agency of the muscles 
on the circulation, and the necessity of Exercise to 
enable them to perform this work. 

With a lax, flabby condition of the muscles comes 
morbid congestion of some one or more of the 



* Cumulative Exercise as a System of Physical Training. 
Chapter II. The Physiology of Exercise. 



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various vital organs, while others suffer for y^nf ^ 
r~d ue supply of blood - The hrajfl, ^ n^ryQin 

system in general, as being the most common seat 
of this morbid congestion, will be taken as an illus- 
tration of the evils thus arising. 

When in use, the brain contains a larger volume 
of blood than when at rest ; the physiological xo:v 
dition of increased action of any part of the body 
— brain or biceps, Stomach or liver — being an in- 
creased supply of blood to the part. The more 
vigorous and prolonged the mental activity, the 
greater the quantity of blood required by the brain. 
Within certain limits this increased amount (which 
constitutes congestion or fullness) is healthy, and 
not incompatible with a proper supply to other 
organs. But after a certain period of time, varying 
with the individual, the gorged blood-vessels of the 
brain lose their contractile power ; and although the 
necessity for further mental action may no longer 
exist, the presence of this blood prevents the brain 
from resting. In other words, so long as the brain 
is congested, so long will activity continue, whether 
profitable or unprofitable, desirable or otherwise. 

With a healthy condition of the muscular system, 
such as comes from Exercise, this surplus blood 
may be drawn from the brain by the mere act of 
rising from the desk and walking a short distance, 
or by any other muscular Exercise. The vigorous, 



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resilient muscles, " sucking up blood like so many- 
sponges/' speedily relieve the brain of its over- 
supply ; and, by equalizing the distribution, give 
other organs a better chance to obtain what they 
need. 

But with the languid, listless movements, which 
come from flaccid, undeveloped muscles, this great 
agency is wanting ; the amount of blood required 
£ their imperfect, lifeless contraction, is not suffi- 
cient to relieve the brain ; and food, if now taken, 
enters tLe Stomach to find it entirely unprepared 
for its reception and disposal, — with w r hat result has 
been already shown. 

IMPORTANT as is this function of the muscles in 

equalizing the circulation, and so enabling the 

Stomach to draw from the entire body the necessary 

amount of blood, instead of from a single organ, — 

there are still other, and scarce less necessary, con- 
st? 
ditions dependent upon the tone and character of 

the voluntary muscles. As the body, which is a 
confederacy made up of many members, depends 
upon the integrity of each member for its integrity 
as a whole, so the muscular tissue or substance, wher- 
ever found in the body, — whether in the voluntary 
muscles, by which we move, etc., or the ///voluntary, 
by which we breathe, etc., — this tissue% affected as 
a whole by whatever affects it in its parts. 



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Hence, disused and imperfectly developed volun- 
tary muscles imply a relaxed, flabby condition of 
the muscular tissue wherever it exists, — in the mus- 
cular coat of the Stomach, rendering the trituration 
and motion of the food imperfect, and in the mus- 
cular structure of the intestines, giving rise to 
constipation, etc. 

A relaxed condition of the muscles of the abdo- 
men is so obviously the cause of many caset ^i 
dyspepsia, — which are often promptly, though only 
temporarily, relieved by the use of a suppbrter or 
belt, — that it is almost superfluous to mention it. 
The pendulous abdomen affords no support to its 
contents. The relaxed diaphragm allows the 
Stomach to press down upon the liver and spleen^ 
and these, in turn, upon the intestines and other 
organs. Thus not only dyspepsia, but bilious diffi- 
culties, constipation, haemorrhoids, etc., and, often, 
even graver diseases, arise. 

To restore tone and vigor to the muscles of the 
abdomen is the effectual and rational cure for this 
class of cases. 

To restore tone and vigor to the voluntary mus- 
cular system, by a judicious character of Exercise, 
is to secure, 

I. — The natural, erect carriage of the body, by 
which the organs of digestion are kept in their 
proper position and relation : — 



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II. — The healthy condition of the z/zvoluntary 
muscular structure, concerned so importantly in 
digestion : — 

III. — The proper, adequate supply to the diges- 
tive tract of those juices, without which digestion 
must be either slow, imperfect or painful : — 

IV. — The prompt absorption and assimilation of 
the products of digestion : — 

And, finally, the equal, thorough circulation of 
that fluid through the medium of which, not only 
these, but " all the processes of life take place." 



CUMULATIVE EXERCISE 

HOW to restore tone and vigor to the volun- 
tary muscular system when wanting and to 
preserve it when regained, with the least outlay of 
time, with the least draft upon the nervous system, 
with the greatest safety, accuracy and efficiency, — 
this is the problem which the advocates of the sys- 
tem of Cumulative Exercise claim to have solved. 

What the agency of Cumulative Exercise is upon 
the circulation, and how radically its effects differ 
from those produced by ordinary forms of Exercise, 
have been explained elsewhere;* and the agency 
of the circulation in Digestion has been sufficiently 
dwelt upon in the preceding pages. But a few 
words may be here added on the specific effect of 
restoring the abdominal organs to their natural po- 
sition, by increasing the strength and tone of the 
abdominal muscles. 

The diaphragm, which separates the nobler from 
the baser entrails, — the heart and lungs from the 
Stomach, liver, spleen, intestines, etc., — is so con- 
nected with the walls of the abdomen that, when 

* Cumulative Exercise as a System of Physical Training. 
By Frank W. Reilly, M. D. New York : The Health-Lift Com- 
pany. 1873. 



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these latter are relaxed and flabby, it affords only 
imperfect support either to the incumbent organs 
above, or to the dependent organs below. These 
organs, pressing upon, and dragging, each other, 
are soon rendered incapable of healthy functional 
activity. Difficult or imperfect breathing, irregular 
heart's action, painful or defective digestion, con- 
gestion or torpor of the liver, constipation or inac- 
tivity of the bowels, hernia, haemorrhoids, and a 
number of other ailments have their origin in this 
way. And they have their rational, permanent 
relief or cure, — not by medicines, boluses or "bit- 
ters," regular or irregular; nor by propping up the 
abdomen by external and artificial support, belt, 
bandage or truss, but — by so training and develop- 
ing the muscles themselves, and restoring their 
natural tone and character, as that they may per- 
form their proper functions and uses. 

In the system of Cumulative Exercise the mus- 
cles of the entire trunk are used as thoroughly as 
are the muscles of the extremities in ordinary forms 
of Exercise. The abdomen is flattened and its 
walls grow rigid ; the diaphragm receives proper 
and adequate support ; the organs are reposited in 
their natural relations ; pressure is relieved from the 
inferior, and weight from the superior, ones ; sources 
of irritation, congestion, and other unhealthy action 
are removed ; — and with natural, healthy condi- 



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tions, come natural, healthy functions; Strength 
supplants Weakness, not of thew and sinew alone, 
but of Stomach, liver, heart and lungs, — and Dis- 
ease gives way, not temporarily, but to permanent, 
enduring Health and Vitality. 

Theories, however, go for little with the practi- 
cal, busy men and women of the present age, unless 
abundantly buttressed by solid, tangible facts. The 
facts supporting the theory of Cumulative Exercise 
are already numbered by thousands. One instructor 
alone has had over twenty-five hundred pupils under 
his charge during the past five years. 

From these the few illustrative cases following 
are cited, largely in the words of the pupils them- 
selves. In most cases authority has been given to 
use the names and addresses; but this privilege has 
not been here used, from motives which will be 
readily appreciated. 

It should be distinctly understood, however, that 
these will be furnished to any bona fide inquirer, 
and every opportunity furnished by the publishers 
for investigation of the claims and merits of the 
system. 



ILLUSTRATIVE CASES 

Case I.— V. L. C writes: "I 

Sick Head- commenced the practice of Cumulative Ex- 

ache front ercise with but little faith in any good 

Indigestion, resulting from it: but, after three months* 

trial, I was convinced, beyond a doubt, that 

from no other source could I have derived so much benefit in 

so short a time. Previous to this I was a great sufferer from 

dyspepsia and consequent sick headaches ; but ten minutes' 

practice each day for three months entirely relieved me of 

these complaints. After over three years' experience, I 

can safely recommend it to those suffering as I was, feeling 

confident of good results to all who will give it a fair trial." 

Case II. — Mrs. had been subject, 

for about three years, to distressing flatu- 

° lence and distention of the abdomen, coming 

Flo. tu le nee* 

on usually about an hour after eating. Of 

late the distress and suffering had increased, 
and particularly after retiring at night. Purgatives, carmi- 
natives, stimulants had all been tried ; but, after affording 
temporary relief, soon failed to do any good. Out-door ex- 
ercise had been recommended ; but was not practicable to a 
sufficient extent to produce much benefit. 

In the spring of 1868, her physician advised a course of 
Cumulative Exercise. Being otherwise well and strong, she 
began at 150 lbs. The same night there was less distress felt 
than usual, and in the course of three months (at the end of 
which time she was lifting 300 lbs.), the difficulty had entirely 
disappeared. 



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Case III. — J. F. C , book-keeper, 

aged 35, complained of pain and a sense of Weight at 
weight at the pit of the Stomach, coming on pit of 

generally within an hour after his dinner ; Stomach. 

often attended with flatulence, and then 
always relieved by the escape of flatus. 

Habitual position over his desk had flattened the upper 
portion of the abdomen, and swelled it out below, so that 
malposition of the contained organs was very clear. Three 
months after beginning a course of Cumulative Exercise he 
was compelled to have some of his clothing altered ; the round 
shoulders and flattened abdomen were approximating correct 
outlines ; the pain and weight had entirely disappeared, and, 
at the end of the year, he was, as he phrased it, " as much bet- 
ter every way as 740 was more than 180" — these being the 
numbers of pounds lifted at the beginning and end of the year. 

Case IV.— W. S. B. M , editor, 

aged 37, writes: " After three years' expe- Dyspepsia 
rience of the system of Cumulative Exercise and 

known as 'The Health-Lift' or 'Lifting Cure, ' Hemorrhoids. 
I am happy to add my testimony to that al- 
ready recorded. When I began, my muscular tissue was entire- 
ly deficient in firmness, my head out of order, and the system, 
generally, in the unpleasant state attendant upon dyspepsia. 

"I have now a good appetite, good digestion, a clear head, 
firmer muscle than ever before, and can lift 750 lbs. with 
greater ease than I could 300 at first. The first three weeks 
cured me of piles, nor have I had any return since, although 
occasionally omitting the exercise during the first two years, 
sometimes for months together. 

" Experience, however, has shown me that some degree of 
regularity is indispensable to keep my brain in good working 
order." 



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Case V.— G. R. C- 



-, capitalist, aged 



Obesity and 
Asthmatic 
Breathing. 



33 years, " a man of an unbounded Stom- 



ach " — that is, it took forty-five and a half 
inches to bound it. His weight was 232 lbs. ; 
abdomen protuberant and pendulous, with 
muscles so relaxed and infiltrated with fat that they afforded 
no support, but required a Russian belt to sustain the weight. 
Digestion was good and health generally fair, except that 
muscular exertion of any kind was growing more and more 
difficult, and the breathing becoming wheezy and asthmatic. 
Beginning the system of Cumulative Exercise with a max- 
imum weight of 200 lbs. for the first day's exercise, in three 
months the waist had been reduced to 41 inches, the chest 
increased in nearly the same proportion, the breathing was 
full, deep and natural, walking had become enjoyable, and 
he lifted 700 lbs. with more ease than the original 200. 

During his third year he lifted the extraordinary amount 
of thirteen hundred pounds, a feat performed by only one or 
two others in this country. 

Case VI.— W. D. B , engraver, 

a The worst aged 42, writes : " For over seventeen years 
form of I was distressed with the worst form of dys- 

Dyspepsia, pepsia, weakness, irritability, nervousness, 
IVeakness, headache, loss of appetite, and at times, 
Irritability, complete prostration, requiring my aban- 
Nervousness, donmentof business entirely. I commenced 
Headache, a course of Cumulative Exercise in June. 
Loss of Appe- 1870, by lifting 175 lbs.; in a few weeks 
tite" etc. could lift 500 lbs.; am now [May, 1872] 

lifting 650, and have lifted 700 lbs. My 
appetite is good, I am stronger than ever before ; good di- 
gestion, more cheerful (a very striking contrast with years 
gone by), and do feel that I am now, and have been for a 



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year and a half, a more healthy and a happier man than I 
dared to hope ever to be. 

" I wish I could find words in which to express my complete 
admiration, gratitude, and confidence in your institution. 
But I will only say let those who have any symptoms of dys- 
pepsia, or its attendant evils, give the system of Cumulative 
Exercise a fair trial, and they need have no fear of its results. '* 

Case VII. — Miss , school-teacher, 

aged 22 years, had been subject to occa- Habitual 
sional attacks of vomiting partially digested Vomiting after 
food for about four years. During the xMeals, 

winter and early spring of 1868, this be- 
came a regular habit. The food vomited was generally 
neutral or only slightly acid and not disagreeable, nor were 
the efforts at vomiting attended with pain or discomfort. 

There was, however, an increasing emaciation, consequent 
loss of strength and endurance, and a growing nervous irri- 
tability. She began, in April, with an exercise of 40 pounds, 
and on the 15th of May following lifted 220, having gained 
12 pounds in her own weight, but without having checked 
the vomiting entirely. The attacks grew gradually less 
frequent, and at longer intervals after meals, and less and 
lesser amounts were ejected, until they finally ceased in the 
latter part of June. 

In the fall of 187 1, the last time heard from, she remained 
free from her old trouble, and was exceptionally strong and 
well. 

Case VIII.— W. H. S , a prominent 

criminal lawyer, aged 52 years, for some Flatulent Dys- 
fifteen years had been troubled with dys- pepsia, 

peptic symptoms, chiefly a sense of weight Hcemorrhoids 
— sometimes amounting to severe pain — at and Headache* 
the pit of the Stomach, more or less flatu- 



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lence, and generally accompanied by severe headache lasting 
about an hour. During his entire professional life he had 
been uniformly seized with an attack of vomiting just before 
addressing a jury. [The writer had the honor of serving. 
during the late war, on the medical staff of a general officer, 
who rarely, if ever, went into action without being affected 
in the same way. The intense strain upon the nervous 
system in a higher direction, evidently paralyzed the nerves 
engaged in the lower function of digestion, and the Stomach, 
unable to dispose naturally of its contents, simply ejected 
them.] 

His appetite was fitful and capricious, leading to irreg- 
ularity in meal hours ; bowels alternately constipated (fol- 
lowed by more or less haemorrhoidal protrusion and bleeding) 
and loose ; and these symptoms were gradually intensifying 
and destroying, not only his enjoyment, but his ability to 
work. 

After three months' Cumulative Exercise, these symptoms 
entirely disappeared, except the vomiting, which con- 
tinues even now, under the given circumstances, although 
he has exercised regularly for over four years, and is, other- 
wise, remarkably strong and vigorous. 

Case IX. — D. G , contractor and 

"Ailments builder, aged 47, writes: " At the time I 

enough to began using c The Health-Lift,' in Decern- 
stock a ber, 1867, I found myself very much •' run 

Hospital" down' from unnecessary worn.-, care, and 
anxiety in business, resulting in great pros- 
tration of the whole nervous system, manifesting itself more 
particularly in extreme nervous debility, deranged digestion, 
pain in the eyes after reading but a short time ; great fatigue 
after slight exertion : weakness of the limbs, inability to sus- 
tain any position but a very short time, even when resting ; 



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bowels very much constipated ; extremities cold ; throbbing 
and fluttering of the heart ; torpid liver ; poor circulation, 
with extreme irritability of temper and depression of spirits. 
My head, also, seemed to be absolutely worn out, and inca- 
pable of any serious mental effort without extreme cerebral 
disturbance. It seemed to me as though I had ailments 
enough to stock a hospital. 

" On commencing lifting, these symptoms, particularly the 
trouble in the head, seemed at first rather aggravated than 
otherwise ; but I soon became conscious that it was increased 
nervous vital force struggling to cast out disease [?], and the 
struggle has continued until these disagreeable symptoms 
have, one by one, slowly and with apparent great reluctance, 
nearly all left me, and I feel in every respect a better man. 

" But it is only on looking back beyond the past two years 
that I can fully realize the great depths from which I 
have emerged. I feel that I have, in fact, literally lifted 
myself up. " 

Case X. — H'. W , a prominent 

capitalist, aged 60, writes: "I cheerfully "Old Age and 
give my testimony in favor of the value of Dyspepsia both 
Cumulative Exercise. I feel well assured Cured." 

it is based on sound principles ; and the 
effects I have witnessed in others, as well as experienced 
personally, during the last two years, assure me of its success 
in practice. My physical system had been k running down ' 
for several years before I came to ' The Health-Lift ' for 
relief. My brain had been overworked, and my nerves were 
much enfeebled. I had tried horseback riding, a trip to 
California, a winter at Mentone, and another at the Isle of 
Wight ; had been rubbed and bathed, and electrified in 
various ways ; fed on phosphates, raw beef, milk, etc. And 
all with the net result that I was old, infirm, broken-down. 



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lagging superfluous on the stage ' — dyspeptic, my liver 
torpid, my digestion feeble, suffering from headache, numb- 
ness of the limbs, coldness of the extremities, and general 
langour and depression of body and mind. 

" When I began your system of exercise, 80 lbs. cost me a 
severe effort. I now, two years after, lift 700. In those 
figures is told the whole story. My appetite is natural, my 
sleep sound, my digestion good, and I am free from all 
nervous distress. I have increased in flesh ; my endurance 
of fatigue, both mental and physical, is superior to what it 
has been any time for a dozen years ; there is an elasticity 
of movement and a vigor which I had not, and my spirits, if 
not positively buoyant, are equable. 

" In short, if curing the symptoms is curing the disease, I 
may say Cumulative Exercise has cured both my old age and 
my dyspepsia." 

Case XI. — J. H. B , principal of 

Heart Disease the public school, aged 43 years, had 

from been rejected by the medical examiner of a 

Indigestion. Life Insurance Company on the ground 
of heart disease. Examination at "The 
Health-Lift" revealed some amount of dilatation (or enlarge- 
ment) of the right side ; but the rhythm was healthy, and 
no evidence of valvular difficulty. 

His history was the not uncommon one of his class : — a 
hum-drum monotone of grey, colorless work in school, little 
or no interest in his duties, or in the outer world, seeking 
only his own comfort, and hypochondriac as to his health, 
which he watched with morbid anxiety, and in the interest 
of which he was continually tempting his appetite with meals 
between meals, than which there is no worse habit than 
"drinking between drinks." He rather took a melancholy 
satisfaction in his rejection for life insurance, as endorsing 



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his claims to consideration as an invalid ; and was quite 
disposed to resent the assurance that his condition was not 
incurable, and that his heart was not so seriously affected as 
to prevent judicious exercise. He began by lifting 80 lbs., 
with much trepidation, but finished his first day's exercise at 
the very respectable figure of 260 lbs. At the end of six 
weeks he lifted 540 lbs. ; his sleepless nights, palpitation and 
fluttering of the heart, flatulence, irregular habit of bowels 
and selfish indifference were gradually disappearing, and he 
had voluntarily confined himself to the ordinary three meals 
a day. In three months he reduced his abdominal girth 
three inches, although retaining about his original weight. 

One year after beginning the exercise, he lifted 1,000 lbs., 
and soon after (in May, 1870) removed to Colorado, where 
he is now a successful stock-raiser. 



SIX LETTERS FROM A DYSPEPTIC 

[ The following series of letters from a clergyman , com- 
pelled to resign his ministry on account of failing healthy is 
a fair representation of hundreds of 'parallel cases :] 



[No. i.] 

, N. Y., April 2d, 1872 



-, M. D., 



The Health-Lift Co. . 

Dear Sir: — I have been an invalid 
for several years, and have gone the rounds experimenting 
with the various curative methods ; but so far, for some 
reason, to little or no profit. I have for more than a year 
been inclined to give them all up and fall back on the best 
system of hygiene that my reading and experience suggested. 
But I have recently seen several printed testimonials from 
men of high standing in various spheres, whose names I 
have long known and whose judgment commands my confi- 
dence in other things. 

They all state that they have received decided benefit 
from the system of Cumulative Exercise ; some that they 
have had a lowered tone of the general health restored to 
youthful vigor ; others that they have had deep-seated dis- 
eases of longstanding, and which have defied the most skillful, 
persistent and varied treatment, permanently cured by means 
of this Exercise. I have become intimately acquainted with 
one who, for years, had suffered severely from brain troubles, 
utterly unfitting him for his ministerial work, and who left 
no stone unturned to remove his trouble, and all to no pur- 
pose, but who is now, through the Cumulative Exercise, res- 
tored to remarkably vigorous health. 



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These things have excited my curiosity, and they lead me 
to inquire whether there is any reason for me to hope for 
any such results from the use of the same means. 

I have been an invalid for more than ten years, and the 
disease has now become many-sided. I am quite dyspeptic, 
scarcely eating a mouthful of anything without pain. I 
have not had a natural movement of the bowels for years. 
For years, too, I have had oxalic deposits ; my eyes pain me 
whenever I look steadily at anything ; all reading pains me. 
My eyes and mouth are very dry in the morning. Of course 
I am very nervous ; have much pain in my head ; sleep is 
easily disturbed ; I often lose a whole night and suffer much 
from want of sleep. For years, preaching has prostrated me 
very much, and I have been obliged to give it up. 

I am not confined to my bed — look reasonably well to most 
people, except in the color of my skin ; but I have very little 
powers of endurance. What can you do for me ? Have 
you had any similar cases ? I am too feeble and discour- 
aged to try any doubtful experiments, and means are too 
limited ; but if there is a clear prospect I will make a fair 
trial. Yours truly, 



[No. 2.] 

, N. Y., Sept. 3d, 1872, 



-, M. D., 



The Health-Lift Co. : 

My Dear Doctor : — I cheerfully give 
you a summary of my case and my estimate of your system 
of Exercise up to the present time. 

I have been an invalid for more than ten years. My 
symptoms have been dyspepsia, constipation, inflamed and 
catarrhal condition of the mucous membrane, oxalic deposits, 
nervousness, sleeplessness, depression of spirits, congestion 



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of the brain, making reading and study always painful and 
often impossible. Most of the time I have been compelled 
to desist from my ministerial labor. 

I have earnestly sought a cure in the various systems of 
treatment for chronic diseases. 

I have tried allopathy, homoeopathy, hydropathy— both in 
their rigid and milder forms ; Swedish movements, gymnastics 
and electricity — all under the men who stood at the head of 
the various departments. I tried also rest, change of climate 
and travel, both in this country and in Europe. I have spent 
also a year-and-a-half on a farm. From some of these 
methods of treatment I received some relief, but from none 
a cure or the hope of one. 

When I began the use of the Lift four months ago, the 
conviction had settled upon me that I was doomed to a life 
of invalidism of the most depressing kind. I am not yet 
well, but I am immensely improved, and I entertain the hope 
of being entirely well — a hope which seems to rest upon a 
rational and solid foundation. 

I entertained this hope, too, just at that stage in the treat- 
ment, when under the other systems of treatment I was 
usually most depressed, to find that they had done so little, 
and that there was little hope that they could work a cure. 

I can perform three times as much muscular labor as I could 
when I began the Exercise ; I sleep soundly and refreshingly 
every night. My digestion much of the time is painless ; 
most of the time now, after preaching, I have no peculiar, 
disagreeable sensations. I am confidently expecting to be 
fit in a few months for permanent service in the pulpit. 

I can commend the Lift as the best means of cure I have 
ever tried. 

Yours affectionately and gratefully, 



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[No. 3.] 

, N. Y., Oct. 17th, 1872. 



M. D., 



The Health-Lift Co. : 

My Dear Doctor: — The longer I use 
the Lift the better I like it. There are several features of it 
that seem to me of immense consequence, whether it is used 
as a means of exercise for the healthy or a means of cure for 
the diseased. 

It affords a chance for the body to put forth the most stu- 
pendous exertion possible with entire safety. It exercises 
every part of the body equally and attacks and drives out 
disease, no matter how remotely it may have hid itself in the 
system or how difficult of medication. No Exercise that at 
all approaches the thoroughness of Cumulative Exercise, can 
occupy so small an amount of time. Time is money at all 
times, but especially in the present age. 

But the feature of Cumulative Exercise which has proved 
of most value to myself, is the fact that I can take such vig- 
orous Exercise, and so harden up my whole body and increase 
my powers of endurance with the least possible draft upon 
the nervous system. 

I have been seeking some such thing for years, and feel 
now like the old philosopher who cried, Eureka. So sensi- 
tive has been my nervous system that to guard that has been 
one of my chief concerns for years. I have tried all forms 
of Exercise, and yet, with the single exception of Swedish 
movements before the Exercise had reached a point vigorous 
enough to be of any profit, my nerves have been prostrated. 
I have used the Cumulative Exercise now for six months, and 
yet have never had my nerves unpleasantly excited ; but, on 



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the contrary, I have obtained through it quiet and sleep when 
I have been perturbed and nervous, which nothing else I 
know of could have given. 

Thus it is slowly but surely building up my nervous system 
which has defied the power of the other curative means I 
have hitherto tried. 

Yours gratefully and affectionately, 



[No. 4.] 

, N. Y., Nov. 19th, 1872. 



-, M. D., 



The Health-Lift Co. : 

Dear Doctor : — I have received a very 
decided check in my progress toward recovery. I have no 
appetite ; my constipation seems returning ; there are co- 
pious deposits in the urine ; I fail to get any benefit from my 
sleep, although I sleep as much as usual. My mouth tastes 
badly in the morning ; my eyes are congested and burn and 
are glued together, with a viscid secretion, when I awake. 
I can neither read, write or think to any purpose. 

Have I exhausted the Lift ? Has it done all for me that it 
can ? Must I relapse into my old hopeless invalidism ? 

Up till last Sunday (the 17th), I had been steadily, almost 
uninterruptedly, gaining. For the four weeks previous I 
had been able to write more easily than before for ten years. 
I preached three times last Sunday, and I think never better 
in my life. 

Have I done too much ? What do you advise ? The 

grasshopper is a burden. I have no courage to lift. Write 

me at once. 

Yours truly, 



4i 

[No. 5.] 

, N. Y., Nov. 25th, 1872. 



-, M. D., 



The Health-Lift Co. : 

My Dear Doctor : — I am entirely over 
my crisis. This morning I felt a little " Mondayish " through 
the unavoidable excitement of yesterday. There was a little 
more church work and far more visitors than usual. But I 
am bright and strong this afternoon. I have just lifted 600 
with more ease than for weeks. 

ratefully yours, 



[No. 6.] 

, N. Y., Dec. 9th, 1872. 



My Dear Doctor: — I am feeling first- 
rate to-day; I have not been so well on a Monday after 
preaching for many years. 

I rode up from New York to on Saturday with Dr. 

, my old physician. I told him my condition 

and that I attributed my improvement to the "Lift." Of 
course he was very non committal as to this, but our conver- 
sation was pleasant and social otherwise, and I was very glad 
to have the opportunity of saying what I did concerning the 
Exercise and its results. ******* 

Yours affectionately, 



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